Clinton’s campaign vows more details about her health, as critics target delay in pneumonia disclosure

Hillary Clinton’s US presidential campaign promised to release more details about the state of her health in an attempt to tamp down backlash and speculation after the delayed disclosure of the Democratic nominee’s bout of pneumonia.

Brian Fallon, Clinton’s press secretary, said the campaign erred in not releasing information sooner about the pneumonia diagnosis and the reason for the candidate’s abrupt departure from a September 11 commemoration Sunday in New York.

“I think that in retrospect we could have handled it better in terms of providing more information more quickly,” Fallon said on MSNBC Monday. “It is our intention in the next couple of days -- we will be releasing more medical information.”

The sudden focus on Clinton’s health threatened to create a political crisis for her in the closing stretch of the race because of her campaign’s handling of the disclosure as much as the diagnosis itself. It also prompted Republican nominee Donald Trump to vow he would soon release more information about his own health, an opportunity to quiet critics who say a doctor’s short letter that he already released is insufficient.

In another unconventional twist in a campaign that’s been full of them, Trump is scheduled to appear in a pre-taped interview on Thursday with Mehmet Oz, also known as Dr Oz, to discuss his “personal health regimen.”